Viernes 31 Isabel Duarte

6th International Meeting

Marianist Lay Communities
Peru 2014

Good morning, everyone. The regional report that we have been discussing for months
was in my mind and its been settling only in the last hours. I come from a business
profession, I am I studied Business Management; I work in this field. Reports are my
thing but, in this case, I realize this isnt about what has been done, about the
successes as measured by the world. / My perception now, looking at you all, and most
of all, working on the making, the thinking and the path of this meeting, and seeing
you interact with one another these days, / I realize that we need to report the money
and quantities because its important, but its more important to see how weve
moved in the evangelization. / First of all, tell you that on 2009 at the meeting in
Kenya, Chile presented me as a person available to provide this service and I was
elected, there were no other candidates. And I wasnt at this meeting, I couldnt travel
due to economic issues, it was too expensive to do it. / I did have previous experience
because at the first meeting of MLC in Chile, we had to work with other people doing a
little bit of what Miguel Planas does now, coordinating all that, so I was in the back of
the first meeting. And then in Bordeaux, Freddy and I participated as presidents of
Chile that we were at that time. / But I assumed this responsibility because there was a
strong impetus from Ezequiel who said, Chile has a lot of people, its old, it has trained
people, how come there isnt one person who could provide this service? / And it just
so happens that I, due to my professional job, had had to travel to different countries
and I had the opportunity of knowing the reality of the Communities in other
countries. / When I came to Peru, for work, I contacted Jaime, Miguel Planas, anyway,
people I knew, and at night, after work, I met with them to informal things or to
participate, they invited me to their community meetings. / When I was in Sao Paulo
and I had to spend a weekend in the city, since I was alone, I took a bus and went to
Bauru to see Mal, whom I met in Chile at the first meeting. Instead of going to the
beach, I went to see a Marianist friend. / It is from that perspective that I tell you,
thats how I started to think about it and my community encouraged me in spite of
myself. This is a responsibility that I assumed; well aware that what drives me is the
love towards Jesus Christ / which takes me to do things that I wouldve never thought
of. / Im not going to talk much about the world perspective, at the end Ill tell you
some ideas because Isabella already represented very well what I think about that. /
Were going to talk about the regional perspective. / There, it is shown the whole Latin
America with their flags, the MLCs are in 7 countries / I had the opportunity to be in 5
of them / not because of my regional responsibility, because of my regional
responsibility only in 2, but because of what I was telling you about, plus my own
country. I couldnt get to Mexico / nor I could participate in the meetings that take
place in each of these countries to learn more about them, to provide a better
collaboration / Our region is very diverse / there are countries that have a Family
Council very united, that takes steps, that moves forward together and wants to work
together; there are other countries were the Councils are weaker, depend on the
people who get in or out of it, and very often on the attitudes of the people there. /
We are also diverse when it comes to our spirit of lay commitment / the plan made in
the Second Vatican Council, about the importance of the laity, whats in our own
spirituality crosses with an opposite attitude which is of clericalism, typical of our
formation and history that has been evolving, in some countries, a lot, in others theres
a long way to walk yet. / I wont talk about the numbers of the Communities per
country because its all in that wonderful notebook that Susan made and that you have
/ The most interesting thing we can tell about our work as a Family in the Latin
American region / The year 2007, in Colombia, we had a family meeting, in which the
responsible was still Ezequiel Reggiani, Freddy and I participated because we were the
Chilean presidents / During those days, we analyzed different topics and we concluded
in an ambitious plan with many, many good ideas that didnt come true / there was no
organization, there was no monitoring, and all those good ideas cleared away; some
countries made progress, a little, others, not so much / On that occasion we agreed to
organize the next meeting in Equator on 2011 / Prior to that date, the female
Marianist religious appointed a Latin American coordinator that turned out to be Patty
Acua, also form Chile. / And the male religious had Felipe Melcher as president of
CLAMAR from here, Peru. / All three of us began to organize us. We had meeting with
Felipe Melcher, via Skype, we worked a lot, in terms of ideas, but finally we didnt carry
out the meeting because CLAMAR had their meeting, CLAMAR of the male religious,
had their meeting on a different date, they couldnt make 2 trips / We tried to modify
this decision, we talked a lot, but to them this was no longer possible, and, in their
opinion, if all those good intentions hadnt been accomplished, there was no point in
getting together. / The laity communicated via email and agreed for us to get together
anyway, in Equator, on the intended date, and carry out our meeting / the female
Marianist religious did the same, they also had their intended meeting in Equator, on
the same date. / The objective of the meeting, and there are some pictures that
Isabella also showed in her presentation / was to go into detail about our Marianist
reality / we wanted to build lines of action based on our reality, our charisma within
the framework of the challenges of the continental mission. The representatives who
arrived at this meeting covered approximately the 80% of the laity of the region. And
sure, we could also come to some agreements. In this meeting, Equator was the
perfect host, it let us pray, share, work, getting to establish new challenges which are
there on the box, on the box that you have, of which we didnt monitor either. / This is
very frustrating, having these meetings strengthen the people who participate in
those, that person gets back to their country and tries to do the impetus, right? To
make that wave that puts people in motion, in this case, there were 5 challenges we
wanted to address. / In the meeting we managed to strengthen leadership, we create
bond of brotherhood, and we also meet with the sisters on a working day, also seeing
how to collaborate between the 2 branches. / One of the agreements was to see when
will we meet again, we keep insisting, the family has to get together, and the laity
asked for the family meeting to be in Peru along with this meeting to make one trip
and dont double the expenses / The female religious agreed immediately, then we
talked with the male religious and they also agreed, so we had our last meeting last
week. It was a very open meeting, very honest. It was organized by the people who
were there; now the president of CLAMAR is Jos Mara, who followed the line of
Felipe, which we were thinking about. We used this emblem for this meeting that is
wonderful; you knew it, that logo of the Marianist Family, is a very beautiful logo
because it wants to mean the union of the 4 branches without confusion but creating a
synergy between them. / The topic of the meeting was precisely the integration and
the synergy in the Marianist Family, we worked on the basis of a very good document,
prepared here in Peru by Felipe, by Jaime Becerra; and we managed to pray, look at
the reality, share, and celebrate to see how can we create that synergy / and the laity
also looked at each other with honesty, we also looked at the expectations the female
religious have of us, the expectations the male religious have of us, and we got to say,
Let us not propose 5 things, lets propose us one but that is in the heart of what we
need, and do that, and we proposed to work on the laical calling / the power to
confirm, discover, and strengthen what is our own calling, / In that regard, my
responsibility as coordinator or regional responsible, I feel it has contributed to create
a progress in the unity of the Latin American Marianist Family, we are diverse as I was
saying in the beginning but we are also very similar, so these meetings, and thats why
we insist, right? We insist on getting together, these meetings help us all grow / Now,
also as the Latin American responsible Ive always tried to support other activities
created in the region in order to join forces, combine wills, like the youth meeting
which was carried out at the same time as the World Youth Day in Brazil. / One of the
personal frustrations that I encouraged and got no results is on the participations of
the online training courses. / There are very good courses, theres an interesting offer
that perhaps later Jack will tell us some details about. / And no matter how hard I try
through email, through conversations to make the people participate, I havent made
it, we havent made it together. And as the achievements and the relationship with the
church, to me it has been very important being able to know how the church works
and being able to participate at the Third Latin American Congress of Movements that
was given by the CELAM. We were participating since the times of Ezequiel. Now, after
the meeting in Aparecida, they invited the movements to a meeting and we had the
opportunity to participate there. / It was a good representation, and the other was,
the other achievement is that weve improved the contributions. There are people
who contributed today, therefore the paper you received with information until
Monday / the paper you received is already updated; there are 3 countries that have
already been updated, updated, which is wonderful. To sum up because theyve
already told me the times up I get back to the fact that assuming this responsibility I
found myself in a group in which I only knew Domingo, in which we had a limitation or
rather I have an important language limitation, I only speak Spanish. I also live very far
away, I live in a country located on the south end of the world, and I have a very large
family as you could see in the picture. And Ive found, without going into detail, that if
the spirit blows we can work together. Examining these years, I can only inform you
that we have to trust more in what moves from the heart, that the mind must be
something that is at the service of whats born within your heart, to organize it, and
that your hands and feet must move according to what your mind has already
organized but that it mustnt be your mind the one that rules the rest. / I think that in
our society, we can give a bigger testimony of the faith of the heart if we leave room
for the silence to listen to our heart and from there we move to make big plans or
carry out big acts / thats it. Thank you.



Viernes 31 Francisca Mbuzi

6th International Meeting
Marianist Lay Communities
Peru 2014

La regin de frica Oriental tiene aproximadamente un total de 320 miembros.
Tenemos 11 comunidades en Malawi, 1 comunidad en Zambia y 3 comunidades en
Kenia. Cada pas tiene miembros que estn pasando por formacin para estar
preparados para la consagracin y este programa dura 2 aos. En Zambia tenemos 2
miembros, en Malawi tenemos 50 miembros y Kenia tiene 8. La regin tiene un
consejo que consta de 6 miembros, 2 de cada pas y un representante del SM (1:02).
Estamos trabajando en colaboracin con el SM y en cada pas, durante las actividades,
el SM est presente en los encuentros pero es un reto para nuestros aclitos en
Malawi debido a la ubicacin geogrfica, tienen solo un miembro del SM y
prcticamente no es posible que est presente todo el tiempo durante sus encuentros.
Mientras que en Mombasa, en Kenia y Nairobi, tienen suerte porque tienen
comunidades dentro su rea, lo mismo se da en Zambia. / Hemos comenzado un
programa de 3 aos de formacin de formadores para cada pas, llegando a 2 aos por
cada uno de nosotros. / Las actividades en cada uno de los pases incluyen (2:15) el da
de retiro, (el seminario de hoy - 2:18), el da de celebracin, la celebracin del da
marianista, y tambin la visita a los necesitados as como el trabajo en orfanatos. /
Todas estas actividades son financiadas por las comunidades locales y los mismos
miembros (africanos - 2:36) / Como en cualquier otra organizacin, todos tenemos
retos. / Retos que en nuestra lista son: nmero 1, (2:51) con grupos juveniles / nmero
2, a veces no logramos cumplir con los proyectos que se nos presentan debido a
restricciones financieras / nmero 3, / (3:07) en Malawi donde tienen el reto de tener
al SM (3:10) presente en todos los comits durante sus encuentros / y nmero 4,
reclutar nuevos miembros. La mayora de nosotros no tiene lo necesario para atraer a
nuevos miembros, es decir, los mtodos de aproximacin / nmero 5, algunas
personas se unen al grupo en beneficio propio y si no lo encuentran, no estarn
disponibles cuando los necesitan. / En conclusin, con la introduccin del programa de
formacin de formadores, esperamos abordar algunos de los retos mencionados.
Asimismo estamos prximos a formalizar el consejo familiar, en el cual los miembros
que quieran pertenecer provendrn de la regin o cualquier otro miembro del grupo
(4:07 - 4:17). / En resumen, juntos somos una unin sin confusin. Muchas gracias.




Mircoles 29 Domingo
6th International Meeting
Marianist Lay Communities
Peru 2014

Some of you have already read them, not only the fragments and more importantly
the exhortation / I dont even want to make you a summary but only encourage you to
read it and also share the reason why we wanted to choose this document, the reason
why we wanted to have the voice of Pope Francisco present in this meeting of the Lay
Communities. This text of the exhortation is pretty extensive and complex, but we
wanted to bring it here, above all, to live it, to put it in practice. / These days, we arent
interested in these days, there are other days, theres time for everything. / This time
of these days is not for comments and hermeneutics, its to let the heart warm up,
quiver with what we hear from our founders, from our church. These are days not to
be afraid of, and are days to decide to move, now. / We loved, I loved, that the Pope
goes for the fundamental, he talks about God, / he talks about the Gospels, / he talks
about a God that is essentially love, who loved us first, / he talks about a God as the
guarantee that the mission will produce results, it needs our collaboration, but its not
our collaboration the guarantee of the productiveness, the productiveness relies in
God. / Its a text that encourages us to go for the essential and to join the essential
with the beauty, and to join the beauty with the best, to not lose ourselves in
hermeneutics. / Its an invitation to an active faith, to the faith of our hearts, its not an
invitation to a voluntarism, to a prometheism, which puts an emphasis in us, the
emphasis is in God, our answer is a loving answer to the love of God. / Its a text that
highlights the importance of the word, of a word that hurts like a sword, but a word
that drives and motivates. / Hes a God that comes to meet us; its Him who comes to
meet us. / Its a text that tells us about a permanent mission, always, every day, in
every place. / Ive collected a text that probably talks to us, Lay Communities directly. /
We are healing spaces, motivational. / A text that probably talks to us, Marianist
Family. / Its a pleasure to get involved, the Pope says the mysticism of getting
involved, even though it creates a bit of chaos. / Its a text that invites and calls for a
revolution of tenderness, / but that is realistic, its a text that tells us about the poor,
that tells us and invites us to look, touch the human wound. / Today we are also on the
Calvary day (4:53), as well; / of the ones who are crucified, get close to them because
within them theres Christ Crucified. / Its a text, a document that invites us to be
realistic, but not serious. I, Isabel Isabella, loves me very much and her love is really
good to me, but Im not a person as happy as she as happy as she sees me. I cant get
to see so I probably have a serious face right now, but the Pope says, Let us not be
serious or sad, have an ugly face, a sour face. Let us not be pessimistic, realistic, yes,
but with hope / because everything is in Gods hands, we know that our effort wont
be in vain, but its due to the grace of God. / We have to put a lot of water in the stone
jars from Cana, / but its Him who is going to turn it into wine / and we are certain of
this, when? Thats what we dont know. But we know that God is with us, that our life
is in the hands of God and its a very good thing being in Gods hands, its the best. So I
invite you to have a time of meditation, of happiness, and contemplation, with these
fragments from Pope Francis.
Viernes 31 Domingo Fuentes

6th International Meeting
Marianist Lay Communities
Peru 2014

Im going to tell you or, using a word weve borrowed these days, narrate a little of
what Ive lived during these 8 years that sometimes seemed long and now they seem
short. Im going to tell you a little of what Ive learned. / Its been 8 years of life
lessons, of presence, of being connected / every day, every hour through email, of
being with the hands in the cookie jar. / Its been 8 years of being with the
international team and walk with the Lay Communities of the world. / And in part, I
also think I can say its been 8 years of walking and being close to the Marianist Family
around the world and its been a time of grace that I thank God in the first place, and
of Marianist grace and I thank all the Marianist Family, the world council and I thank
this team that has been amazing. / I think that Ive been religious within the
international team. / Ive been a member of the TLMs within the Society of Mary and
within the Marianist Family, or perhaps better, and Ive simply been a Marianist with
other Marianists. / Ive tried to do what they asked me to in the international team. / I
didnt know what was like to be a consultant of an international team either. / They
have been telling me and Ive been learning throughout these 8 years. / Ive been very
attentive to that. / As consultant, Ive felt pushed to be some sort of spiritual guide but
with no solemnity. / Ive been asked to focus on the prayer, on preparing, helping out
in the retreats, in our meetings, / on reminding our Marianist tradition to our
founders, / on helping in our path of faith, as a team, as a group. / And sometimes Ive
worked as a translator, without speaking English, and very little French. / Ive talked
and Ive given my opinion much less than Im used to. / And Ive also tried to do it after
the members of the team have already done it. / Ive tried to be patient, to stay calm
and even instill it with others when I had it, to listen carefully, try to understand what
was unknown or unfathomable to me. / Definitely, try to accept in the heart. Ive tried
to love what we were. / Ive tried I think Ive appreciated a lot and Ive tried to
respect what we were. / In the group Ive felt free and Ive felt very well, maybe
because Ive felt very appreciated and loved. Thank you. / I havent finished. / It was to
take a breath. / What I havent done / I havent trained consultants or have meetings
with consultants, that sometimes I thought itd be important. I havent written, I
havent defined anything, I havent replied all the emails, and occasionally I felt
overwhelmed. But, all of this has taken me out of my comfort zone and it has pushed
me to study about our charisma and Ive grown a lot in that, and to commit; but there
has been quite a lot of things I havent done and Im sorry for that. / I think that as a
team weve been attentive and weve tried to cultivate the presence of God in our live
and in our meetings, and weve tried to be available to do Gods will. / In this team, no
ones trilingual, we are not very good at languages, however, weve grown in other
ways of communication, in communicating us the essential, the interior, the basics, the
convictions. / These days, Ive realized that this limitation has turned into a force and I
thank God and the team for that. / And, to sum up, I hope and trust, or rather, / I want
to know how to wait, be trusting, be patient, which is not the same as having patience,
/ and I think that if you let it wrap you, as we say in Portuguese, and I dont know how
to say in Spanish, if you let it encircle you or hold you, what you believe will come true,
what you wish for, the grace you ask for, if you believe it and you love it, it comes true.
The wish I had during this meeting is for our diversity to become intensity, both in the
Lay Communities and the whole Marianist Family. I hope and believe in that. Thank
you.

Viernes 31 Isabella Moyer

6th International Meeting
Marianist Lay Communities
Peru 2014

En mi opinin, el xito de un equipo de liderazgo se mide no solo por la cantidad de
proyectos completados o el objetivo que se alcanza. El xito radica en el viaje y las
lecciones aprendidas en el camino / Algunos de los retos que nos dieron en Nairobi
fueron completados / algunos estn incompletos / algunos an no han sido
comenzados / Hemos aprendido mucho en estos 4 aos, lecciones que espero nos
ayuden a crecer y avanzar como una organizacin internacional / Mi informe describir
una parte del trabajo del trabajo realizado, el trabajo mental y fsico / tambin hablar
desde el corazn ya que el corazn ve ms all de la accin para considerar la sabidura
interior / Necesitamos esta sabidura para reconocer tanto nuestros dones como
nuestras debilidades. Comenzar con nuestro equipo de liderazgo / Nuestro equipo de
liderazgo es nico en la familia marianista / las administraciones generales de la
Sociedad de Mara, Hijas de Mara Inmaculada y la Alianza Marial se formaron
alrededor de los 3 oficios de formacin, vida religiosa y temporalidades / Nuestro
equipo se forma en representacin geogrfica con 4 responsables regionales / Hay
mucha sabidura en los 3 oficios as que tratamos de estructurar nuestras tareas en
torno a estos oficios lo ms que se pueda / Susan e Isabel estaban en temporalidades /
Felix y Ernest en formacin y Domingo y yo en vida religiosa. Los retos del futuro se
dividieron entre estos oficios as como nuestras tareas del Consejo Mundial. / Todos en
este equipo, todos aqu en la asamblea, debemos dividir nuestro tiempo y energa
entre varias responsabilidades: familia, carrera, comunidad, trabajo en la iglesia,
trabajo voluntario y trabajo marianista. Dentro del equipo internacional, nuestros
miembros dividen sus energas en 3 formas ms: las responsabilidades individuales,
no, primero, las responsabilidades individuales que vienen con su rol en el equipo,
como presidente, como responsables regionales, como asesores; nmero 2, las tareas
de la Organizacin Internacional de Comunidades Laicas Marianistas, el trabajo que
realizamos como equipo, por ejemplo, los futuros retos, finanzas, comunicaciones, la
organizacin de esta asamblea internacional, entre otros. Y nmero 3, tenemos las
tareas y proyectos del Consejo Mundial de la familia marianista. Cuando dejamos
nuestras reuniones en (2:51) las tareas listadas frecuentemente son largas y
abrumadoras / Es importante compartir estas tareas / Tenamos buenas intenciones e
ideas en nuestro primer encuentro en Roma / Queramos formar comits
internacionales que puedan trabajar juntos en los retos. Un comit de justicia social,
un comit de formacin, un comit de juventud. A medida que las tareas crecieron y
aparecieron proyectos inesperados, estas intenciones se dejaron de lado. Cada uno de
ustedes reunidos en Roma comenz con una lista de mea culpas / Pueden hacer un
informe del progreso de este reto o este comit? Lo lamento, no fui capaz de hacer
ningn progreso, mea culpa. / An creo que es importante, mejor dicho, es imperativo
que formemos comits para ayudar con el trabajo del equipo internacional. No
podemos solamente darle al nuevo equipo una serie de retos y decir Que Dios te
bendiga y buena suerte. El trabajo debe ser un esfuerzo colaborativo. Todos aqu en
esta asamblea ahora tienen el privilegio y experiencia de nuestra organizacin
internacional. Espero que hayan encontrado nueva energa para nuestra organizacin
internacional. / Somos una comunidad de comunidades, todos nosotros juntos. El
crecimiento y xito de esta comunidad dependen de todos nosotros. / El nuevo equipo
liderar muchas manos corazones generosos para trabajar con ellos en los prximos 4
aos. Por favor, ofrezcan sus servicios si son capaces, no esperen a que les pregunten,
y si se les pregunta, por favor respondan con un s generoso, as como hizo Mara. /
Hay otra razn muy importante para involucrar muchos hombres y mujeres en nuestro
trabajo regional e internacional. / Es una oportunidad de formar nuevos lderes, lderes
que tengan alguna experiencia y conocimiento de trabajo y estructura de nuestra
organizacin. El trabajo regional: pronto escucharn los informes de nuestros
responsables regionales. El trabajo de nuestros responsables regionales depende de
comunicacin y colaboracin regular con los responsables nacionales, y agradecemos
a cada uno de ustedes por ello. (6:58) esperamos sus informes de todos nuestros
pases. Nos enteramos de sus dones y alegras y sus retos, reas de crecimiento y reas
de prdida. Comunicacin:/ el equipo internacional es responsable de proveer una
lista de contactos de todos los responsables nacionales. Le agradecemos a Susan por
sus esfuerzos por mantener y actualizar un directorio internacional de las CLM. Esta es
una tarea difcil dado que el liderazgo y los contactos cambian constantemente,
tambin proveemos las estadsticas actuales en cada pas, el nmero de Comunidades
Laicas Marianistas y el nmero de laicos marianistas. Estas cifras son importantes
para Disclpenme. Estas cifras son importantes para la informacin general pero
tambin para determinar el nmero de delegados votantes en esta asamblea. / Los
responsables de nacionales tienen la responsabilidad de mantener y actualizar un
directorio nacional. El equipo internacional tiene una pgina web: clm-mlc.org, esta
pgina es barata y es fcil de actualizar. El propsito de clm-mlc.org es servir de portal
para nuestras pginas de las CLM alrededor del mundo . todos nuestros documentos
estn disponibles en nuestra pgina web. Muchos de estos documentos estn
disponibles en otros idiomas aparte de ingls, francs y espaol, gracias a muchos
amigos que generosamente ofrecieron traducir los documentos para sus comunidades
locales. Estos idiomas incluyen japons, coreano, tagalo, italiano y portugus. La
pgina ms reciente es nuestro sitio de plegarias, gracias a Susan Vogt y Rob Broderick,
tenemos el inicio de una coleccin de plegarias de comunidades alrededor del mundo.
Este es un proyecto de este encuentro internacional y estamos emocionados por su
potencial y crecimiento. Rob Broderick, dnde ests, Rob? puedes ponerte de pie,
por favor? Creo que ya te conocemos pero solo por si acaso, Rob Broderick. Ves?
Todava saben por qu te estn aplaudiendo. Les gustas solo por ser t. Rob Broderick
es el editor de nuestro nuevo boletn informativo, La Madeleine. / Cada mes nuestro
equipo reciba maravillosos boletines informativos de todo el mundo. Queramos
compartir estos boletines informativos con nuestra familia marianista internacional en
un formato simple, es por esto que naci La Madeleine. / Hemos utilizado informacin,
noticias y actualizaciones tales como este encuentro internacional. La Madeleine an
es muy joven y aceptamos todas las sugerencias para su mejora./ Nuestro rol en la
iglesia / somos una asociacin privada de creyentes aprobada cannicamente, /
nuestra aprobacin y supervisin del Vaticano viene del Consejo Pontificio para los
Laicos, / quienes son responsables de todos los movimientos eclesiales y las
comunidades nuevas. / Nuestra relacin con el Consejo Pontificio es muy importante
para nosotros, / tenemos reconocimiento oficial en la iglesia, / esto nos da ciertos
derechos, incluyendo el derecho a la asociacin. / Tratamos de mantenernos en
contacto regular con nuestros amigos en el Consejo Pontificio para los Laicos. / El Dr.
Stefano de Pasquale Ceratti, el responsable de los movimientos eclesiales y
comunidades, ha sido un buen amigo y ayuda para nosotros. / Nos ayuda a adquirir la
documentacin necesaria para los miembros del equipo que necesitan visas para
atender a nuestros encuentros anuales en Roma. / Mantener contacto regular tambin
incrementa nuestras probabilidades de recibir invitaciones a reuniones continentales e
internacionales de los laicos. / Cuando me enter del congreso panafricano en
Camern, contact a Stefano y le pregunt si podamos recibir una invitacin delegada.
/ Pudo hacer esto por nosotros y Ernest Casongo represent nuestras Comunidades
Laicas Marianistas en este importante encuentro. / Tratamos de visitar el Consejo
Pontificio cada dos aos, nuestro equipo realiz 2 visitas, / cada una fue una clida
experiencia y recibimos mayor afirmacin hacia el trabajo de nuestras Comunidades
Laicas Marianistas alrededor del mundo. / Y tambin le mand correos al Dr. Cerati
entre cada visita. Ah, y nuestro equipo envi una carta de felicitacin en nombre de
nuestras Comunidades Laicas Marianistas al Papa Franciso por su eleccin. La carta
constaba de felicitaciones personales escritas por cada miembro de nuestro equipo / y
una felicitacin especial de Ezequiel Reggiani, / nuestro antiguo responsable regional
de Latinoamrica y uno de nuestros muchos marianistas en Buenos Aires que conoci
personalmente a Carlo Bergoglio. Tenemos amigos en posiciones importantes. / El reto
de nuevas fundaciones y comunidades, / uno de los retos recientes que hemos
enfrentado es la realidad de nuevas comunidades y fundaciones. / Laicos y laicas
marianistas se estn volviendo cada vez ms mviles, algunos estn impacientes por
comenzar nuevas comunidades en reas o pases sin ninguna presencia marianista
previa. / Estas iniciativas deben ser apoyadas, ya que muestran un verdadero espritu
misionero, pero, asimismo debemos tener un proceso claro para verificar nuestros
laicos marianistas y cualquier Comunidad Laica Marianista nueva, antes de concederles
reconocimiento oficial. / Tener reconocimiento cannico significa que somos
responsables de nuestros miembros y de nuestro nombre. Por ejemplo, no podemos
tener personas sin ninguna conexin a nosotros formando CLM, a su vez, no podemos
tener personas pidiendo fondos o asistencia en nuestro nombre. Desgraciadamente,
existen muchos fraudes en internet. / Cualquier pedido personal por asistencia o
fondos debe ser tratado con algo de sospecha, si reciben tal pedido de alguien que no
saben si es un laico marianista, es recomendable contactar a tu responsable regional. /
el reconocimiento oficial tambin confiere derechos delegados. Necesitamos instaurar
un proceso claro para evitar confusiones o malentendidos. / En respuesta a los pedidos
de algunas de nuestras comunidades, hemos propuesto y preparado un paquete de
documentos para la presentacin a obispos y sacerdotes locales. / El paquete incluye
nuestros estatutos, una copia de nuestra aprobacin cannica y una carta de
presentacin del presidente. / Este paquete debe ser solicitado por un responsable
nacional a travs de su responsable regional. / Debemos asegurarla validez y buena
reputacin del laico marianista o comunidad antes de recomendarlos. / Por esta razn,
tambin se requiere una carta de recomendacin personal del responsable nacional
y/o regional. / Finanzas finanzas / Nuestro equipo internacional trabaja con un
presupuesto muy pequeo. / Nuestro ingreso es limitado y muy frecuentemente
depende de la generosidad de unos pocos. / Nuestra frmula de cuotas respeta la
situacin financiera de cada miembro. / Todo lo que pedimos es un salario de una hora
por persona. / El pago de cuotas es un smbolo concreto de apoyo por el trabajo de la
Organizacin Internacional. / Nosotros, el equipo internacional, tambin debemos
rendir cuentas por cada dlar que nos dan. / No tenemos que ser contadores
profesionales para mantener un registro simple de ingresos y gastos, o para proveer
recibos por cada gasto. / Se espera de nosotros que brindemos informes mensuales en
nuestras cuentas. / Es importante recordar que cuando se pagan las cuotas, / son para
el uso de la Organizacin Internacional como un todo / Mantenemos nuestros fondos
en varias cuentas bancarias con fines logsticos. / Pero la contabilidad se realiza como
una sola cuenta. / Cuando France (18:29) paga sus cuentas a Flix, deposita los fondos
en una cuenta bancaria en Europa. / Pero este no es dinero para una cuenta europea. /
Cuando la MLNNA paga sus cuentas, el dinero se deposita en una cuenta en dlares
americanos en Canad, pero este no es dinero norteamericano. / Es dinero de la
Organizacin Internacional. / Cuando se elige al nuevo equipo, puede que se deban
abrir nuevas cuentas para fcil acceso a los fondos en cada regin. / El documento de
criterios financieros explica las prioridades de nuestros gastos y los animo a que lo
lean.